garth

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Bertram waves his arms over the cloister-garth, and there, too, the tombs gape apart, and more shadowy spectres emerge.

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  1. noun A grassy quadrangle surrounded by cloisters.
  2. noun Archaic A yard, garden, or paddock.

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  1. Middle English, enclosed yard, from Old Norse gardhr; see gher-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English garth, from Icelandic gardhr, a yard, court, garden, = Anglo-Saxon geard, English yard: see yard and garden, which are doublets of garth.
  2. English dial., from Middle English garth, another form of gerth, later English girth, q. v.
 

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